I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.

My fear is if I expose myself, not so much that I'll be hurt, but that the reaction will be "Is that all there is? Is that the entirety of you? Because it's boring."

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

Super excited about things I'm going to do; never excited about things I'm actually doing.

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.

That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.